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Rotavating
Justin Doherty2
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Hi all, Does anyone have experience of using a rotavator to remove weeds and roots? I'm considering it as I'm having the damnedest time trying to get rid of hogwort and cow parley in our school wildlife garden.
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Usually rotovators can just break up the roots and make the whole thing worse. I would cut down the unwanted growth and then get some old carpet and cover the part of the area you want to clear. You say wildlife garden - the wildlife will love the cow parsley and the hogwort.
Any good wild flower mix of seeds you get will surely have those in it - wonderful for pollinating insects. Pull a few out maybe, but leave some - they're gorgeous.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
hogweed is a thug. Its leaves are so huge they swamp everything.
So huge they absorb a whole lot of glyphosate. If you did it on a Friday after school there's be no worries about poisoning kids. It would be thoroughly dry by next school day
In the sticks near Peterborough
And yet people pay good money for Angelica gigas
It all depends on how much space you have.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's interesting what we like and don't.
I like cow parsley, beautiful plant. but there's something about hogweed that's ugly to my eye.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think it can look absolutely fantastic
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can let you have some Dove
Will a couple of hundred be enough?
In the sticks near Peterborough
You're very kind, but as I said, 'It all depends on how much space you have'
We don't have enough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough